However, Italy’s Calabria region has a rate of 65%, while Upper Bavaria in Germany is just 3.4%. Typically, Calabrians who leave the region are young people who resettle in northern and central Italy. Yet among a population of 590,733, there were last year only 751 young people who were registered as out of work. The airport is now the region’s largest employer, housing 550 companies with a total of about 35,000 workers. Munich airport, for example, offers young people apprenticeship opportunities in real estate management, even though it could conceivably recruit qualified real estate managers from outside the region.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2016 15:00 UTC